Medical Negligence

Philadelphia Jury Awards $44M Over Brain Damage Claims. A Philadelphia jury has hit the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania with a $44.1 million verdict for failing to recognize a woman's adverse reaction to anti-coagulant...

Capped damages upheld in wrongful death suit. Bad for Justice System. The Missouri Supreme Court has ruled that caps on how much money someone can win in a wrongful death lawsuit do not violate the...

Hospital Discharge is one of the most dangerous times for patients. Within two weeks of Joyce Oyler’s discharge from the hospital, sores developed in her mouth and throat, and blood began seeping from her nose...

A young California woman who lost her leg and won a $28.2 million lawsuit against Kaiser Permanente said Thursday she hopes the verdict will bring reform against the managed care giant and empower patients...

Bloomberg News reports Johnson & Johnson has been accused of putting profits before safety by ignoring reports that its metal-on-metal version of its Pinnacle hip implants failed at alarming rates, according to a lawyer's...

Reports are showing  that every eight minutes, a child below 6 years of age experienced a medication error between 2002 and 2012, citing an analysis of calls to poison control hotlines that was...

Bloomberg News provides an update on the legal case related to Johnson & Johnson’s Pinnacle hip implants, noting a lawyer told jurors that the company’s “bid to convince doctors the metal-on-metal version of its...

Survive your hospital stay             Patient harm in hospitals may be the nations third leading cause of death, trailing only heart disease and cancer